Category: Blog

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And Now This . . .

News programs on TV used to use the phrase “And now this . . .” to toggle between one news story and the next, especially

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The Space Between

A graduating college senior explained that he lived a life that often felt stuck between two different sides. His father is from Bahrain and his

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God in Our Senses: Touch

Museums are really challenging places for me. I really don’t like whispering and I really do like touching things. Since most museums tend to be

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Living on the Fault Lines

Walking the dog last October, before the US presidential election, I noted the obvious evidence that my neighborhood sits on a fault line. Not a

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I know it’s a stretch

The whole thing’s a stretch, but what the heck–I’m lovin’ it.  Sheriff Pat Garrett plugged Billy the Kid, a notorious gunslinger, after hunting him down

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A Psalm for those who languish

The New York Times published a piece last week about a mental health state called “languishing” — a state of joylessness and aimlessness that is

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The Calcagni Club

Every time I am in Florence, I spend time meditating on one of my favorite sculptures: the pietà of Michelangelo, often referred to as “The Deposition.” Now

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Falling Apart Together

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. – Eugene O’Neill I’ve grown more nervous to visit the pediatrician’s

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Mine Enemies

I will call upon the Lord . . . and so shall I be saved from mine enemies. Psalm 18 I pray the Psalms daily.

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